While I was producing the Critical Thinker Podcast I did a few episodes that where very popular but that can only be described as "special topics" -- critical thinking about conspiracy theories, God and the Big Bang, etc.

In this course I've collected a few of these and made them available here.

What Will I Learn in This Course?

In this course you'll learn:

about the relationship between critical thinking and conspiracy theorizing

an argument for default skepticism about global conspiracies

the history of some real conspiracies (COINTELPRO and MK-ULTRA)

an introduction to Karl Popper's "falsifiability" criterion for scientific statements, and how this applies to conspiracy claims

the Kalam argument for the existence of God

the philosophy of causation, time and Big Bang cosmology

five reasons why majoring in philosophy in college is a good idea

an introduction to fallacies, and an illustration based on a viewer question

What Do I Get With This Course?

When you enroll in this course you get

5 video lectures, totaling 2 hours of viewing time

Full transcripts for each of the lectures, embedded below the videos

Discussion comments for each of the lectures, allowing you to ask and respond to questions and comments